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As many as 768 Croats in Zagreb, Croatia, broke the Guinness World Record for the world's biggest human smiley. The previous record had 551 participants and was reached in the Latvian capital of Riga. Nikola Solic/Reuters

Young South Korean monks stand on a platform under lanterns at the Chogye temple in Seoul to celebrate Buddha's upcoming birthday. Ahn Young-oon/AP

Technician Tom Mattia Jr., (l.), and Malcolm Kenyatta test a voting machine in Philadelphia. A sampling of the thousands of devices to be used in the upcoming elections were inspected to ensure their integrity for the municipal and judicial primary elections scheduled for May 17. Matt Rourke/AP

Melida Horn watches one of the races before the 137th running of the Kentucky Oaks horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Darron Cummings/AP

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin interacts with World War II veterans as he visits the Battle of Stalingrad memorial ahead of May 9 Victory Day, in Volgograd, Russia. Alexei Nikolsky/AP

A protestor in Budapest holds the Hungarian flag during a protest against the government's austerity measures. The Hungarian government has launched a package of fiscal reforms to cut the budget deficit, including scrapping early retirement, which mostly affects law enforcement personnel. Laszlo Balogh/Reuters

Staff and volunteers with the Marine Mammal Conservancy care for pilot whales in a temporary sea pen at Cudjoe Key, Fla. The whales are part of a group of about 16 that stranded Thursday off the lower Florida Keys. Bob Care/AP

A supporter of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh cries during a rally in Sanaa. Yemen's opposition dismissed Saleh's stance on a revised Gulf plan to ease him out of power, as security forces gathered in anticipation of mass demonstrations for and against him. Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters

New recruits of the Vatican's elite Swiss Guard prepare for their swearing-in ceremony at the Vatican. The Swiss Guard, founded in 1506 and consisting of 100 volunteers who must be Swiss, Catholic, single, beardless and at least 174 centimetres tall, celebrate their 503rd anniversary this year. Tony Gentile/Reuters

A man walks past the outside wall of the 'Art In The Streets' exhibit at the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. The exhibit is the first major historical exhibition of graffiti and street art to be organized by an American museum. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

Bulgarian army soldiers take part in a military parade in central Sofia to celebrate Saint George's Day, also known as Day of the Bravery of the Bulgarian Army. Stoyan Nenov/Reuters

A boy holds a poster with portraits of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, (r.), and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as worshippers listen to a sermon during Friday prayer at Tehran University in Iran. Vahid Salemi/AP

German Chancellor Angela Merkel feeds penguins at the Ozeaneum sea museum in Stralsund, Germany. Merkel adopted a female humboldt penguin at the aquarium and named it Alexandra. Tobias Schwarz/Reuters

Children line up to put flowers at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier outside the Kremlin ahead of the May 9 Victory Day, in Moscow, Russia. Misha Japaridze/AP

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A crackdown on transfers to Somalia to block Al Shabaab funding has had a major impact on Somali-American communities. Lawmakers are working on a contingency plan to prevent a potential humanitarian crisis.

ByJohnny Magdaleno, ContributorMarch 3, 2015

Omar Faruk/ Reuters

For the last three weeks, Ali Eishe has been scrambling to find a way to send money to his nieces and nephews in Somalia.